The new release is functionally identical to VSI’s initial OpenVMS Alpha release (V8.4-2L1). However, for customers running Alpha hardware on EV6 and later processors, the new, optimized V8.4-2L2 release may realize significant performance improvements of between 15% and 50%.

This latest 2017-2019 product roadmap includes updates on VSI OpenVMS V8.5, OpenVMS for Integrity i6, the Alpha support roadmap, and iSCSI. There is also further detail about the next OpenVMS V8.5 and V9.0 release for Itanium, along with the "early adopter" release of V9.0 of OpenVMS for x86 servers.